Redburn: Su Primer Viaje

Redburn: Su Primer Viaje

by Herman Melville
Redburn: Su Primer Viaje

Redburn: Su Primer Viaje

by Herman Melville

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-Wellington, ya que tienes intención de embarcarte, ¿por qué no te llevas mi chaqueta de caza?; es justo lo que necesitas... Llévatela, te ahorrarás tener que comprar una. Ya lo verás, es muy caliente; tiene los faldones largos, duros botones de cuerno y muchos bolsillos. Así, con toda la bondad y sencillez de su corazón, me habló mi hermano mayor la víspera de mi partida hacia el puerto. Y, Wellington -añadió-, ya que ambos andamos cortos de dinero, y te hace falta un equipo, y no tengo nada que darte, puedes llevarte también mi carabina y venderla en Nueva York por lo que te den. No, llévatela, a mí ya no me sirve; no me queda pólvora para cargarla. Por aquel entonces yo no era más que un muchacho. No mucho tiempo antes mi madre se había trasladado desde Nueva York a un agradable pueblo junto al río Hudson, donde vivíamos muy tranquilos en una casita. Varios amargos desengaños en ciertos planes que había proyectado y la necesidad de hacer algo para ganarme la vida, unidos a mi natural disposición aventurera, habían conspirado en mi interior para enviarme al mar como marinero.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9791041936212
Publisher: Culturea
Publication date: 04/23/2023
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.54(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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